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CWSA.- Volume 5

Part One. Translations from Sanskrit
Section Four. Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Wisdom

Fate and Wisdom

What can the extreme wrath of hostile Fate?

The swan that floats in the cool lotus-wood

She from his pleasant mansion can exclude.

His fame remains, in food adulterate1

Who could the better choose, the worse discern.

Fate cannot touch glory that mind can earn.

 

1 The swan was supposed to have the power of separating milk from water, when the two were mixed.

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